The Raspberry Pi
The “Raspberry Pi” is a $35 computer that has been developed over the last few years to be sold into education, and the developing world. The Raspberry Pi is by…
π Day
What is π? By definition, π is the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. π is always the same number, no matter which circle you use…
Install Octopress on Lion
After upgrading to Lion (MacOS X 10.7.3) I encountered a few problems getting Octopress running. The problems I had encountered are due to Lion switching to LLVM-GCC from the default…
MongoDB Analytics for Online Advertising at Magnetic
On Wednesday, August 10, Mark Weiss, Sr. Director of Engineering at Magnetic participated in a webinar hosted by 10gen. In the webinar, Mark examined how Magnetic uses MongoDB for their online advertising…
Practice and Theory: Search Retargeting Company Magnetic Shares its Approach to Hiring Great Engineers
Like any engineering profession, software engineering is driven by both theory and practice. The Magnetic interview process reflects this by evaluating candidates’ judgment and experience in building working systems and…
Search Retargeting & Magnetic Part 1: The Two Jobs of a Great Engineering Team
It isn’t hard to explain at a high level what Magnetic does. In the simplest formulation, we use search data to target online advertising across the Internet. That is the…
